——却不许那不在本时的割礼。生后第八日若因故没有行割礼,后来补行的就不越过节期,因这一件并不系定在那一日。这一层是非说明不可的。不然就要有人照着「割礼越过大麻风的律」一层,用轻重相推的法子推出割礼连安息日与节期也越得过。所以托拉说明:过了第八日才行的割礼不越过节期。
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——却不许那不在本时的割礼。
but not a circumcision that is not at its ideal time.
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生后第八日若因故没有行割礼,后来补行的就不越过节期,因这一件并不系定在那一日。
If, for some reason, circumcision was not performed on the eighth day after birth, its performance at a later date does not override a Festival, because the obligation to perform the circumcision is not particular to that specific day.
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这一层是非说明不可的。
This needed to be emphasized.
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不然就要有人照着「割礼越过大麻风的律」一层,用轻重相推的法子推出割礼连安息日与节期也越得过。
Otherwise, it would have come to be derived through an a fortiori inference that circumcision does override Shabbat and Festivals, based on the fact that it overrides the laws of leprosy.
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所以托拉说明:过了第八日才行的割礼不越过节期。
Therefore, the Torah emphasized that circumcision performed later than the eighth day does not override Festivals.